A domestic help was allegedly brutally beaten up by a former model at her residence in Gurugram’s upscale DlF Phase-V area on Thursday. Hundreds of domestic workers under the banner of Gharelu Kamgar Union (GKU) staged a demonstration on Friday at the Sector-53 Police Station.
The workers alleged that the incident took place on Thursday when, Tina, a resident of Westend Heights, brutally beat up Maya Das in anger, when she did not find the worker's answer to her question satisfactory. The victim works as a cook at her employer's home.
A group of workers took out a rally to the Sector-53 Police Station from the accused's apartment complex. However, police have booked both parties under section 107/151 Code of criminal procedure but later released on bail.
Sources said Tina had participated in the Miss India Asia Pacific 2002 contest and established herself as a fashion model.
On Thursday, when Maya reported for work in the evening she was told to cook something, following which she proceeded to cook food for her employer. later, the employer got infuriated when she did not find the meal being cooked to her liking and began to brutally beat up the victim.
"Maya Das was choked, grabbed by her hair, got kicked on her stomach, was thrown around and slapped several times. She was abused also. She was so brutally beaten that she had to be taken to the emergency ward of a private hospital," Dr Maya John a member of, GKU, said.
later, when the domestic worker's relatives, neighbours and other domestic workers came to hear about the incident they gathered at Westend Heights to demand immediate arrest of the employer.
Aggrieved workers took out a rally to the police station demanding immediate arrest of her employer."We have booked both the parties under section 107/151 of Crpc but later they released on bail. Further probe into the matter is underway," Station House Officer (SHO), Arvind Dhiya of Sector-53 police station said.